Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
HERMANN HESSEYou must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
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Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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There is no reality except the one contained within us.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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